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Convection is a heat transfer process driven by density and temperature differences in fluids or gases. In the Earth's mantle, hot materials rise while cold materials sink, creating convection currents that move lithospheric plates. This cycle is initiated by heat generated from radioactive element decomposition in the Earth's interior.

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Convection is a heat transfer process driven by density and temperature differences in fluids or gases. In the Earth's mantle, hot materials rise while cold materials sink, creating convection currents that move lithospheric plates. This cycle is initiated by heat generated from radioactive element decomposition in the Earth's interior.

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1. Convection is a kind of 2. heat transfer caused by differences in


2. density and 4. temperature of a gas, fluid, or molten rocks. Hot fluid materials 5. rise
because they are 6. less dense, while cold fluid materials 7. sink because they are 8. more
dense. In the mantle, the repeating rising and sinking of 9. magma creates a convection
10. current, driving the 11. lithospheric plates that ride on 12. asthenosphere to move
slowly and constantly.

Arrange the following events in the mantle convection process:

b. 1 The decomposition of radioactive elements causes heat in the interior part of the Earth.
d. 2 Heat moves to the core.
c. 3 Heat slowly rises to the mantle and creates convection current.
a. 4 Lithospheric plates move in the asthenosphere due to the rising and sinking of materials.
e. 5 The process repeats as a cycle.

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